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A new Pew Research Center study finds that most American adults believe religion plays a meaningful and positive role in public life. And yet, more than half of those same people feel that conservative Christians press their values too far into government and schools. It is a tension worth holding quietly — the difference between faith as a gift offered and faith as a standard imposed.
That tension takes on particular weight this weekend, as thousands gather on the National Mall ahead of America's two hundred fiftieth anniversary. Pastor Gary Hamrick of Cornerstone Chapel is calling the nation to repentance, urging a return to what he calls the God of the Bible, and speaking directly against what he describes as gender confusion and the redefinition of marriage. Whether one stands with him or apart from him, the gathering itself reminds us how deeply Americans still reach toward the sacred in moments of national reckoning.
And then there is this — researchers have found that the human brain continues to absorb and process information even while a person is under anesthesia. We are, it seems, more present than our silence suggests. Even in our deepest stillness, something in us is still listening.
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